Recipes from the United States – Part Three, the Chesapeake Region

‘The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and one of the most useful in the world. It was created in the last 15, 000 years by the flooding of the lower valley of the greatest river on the East Coast, the mighty Susquehanna. As a drowned valley, it has hundreds of peripheral rivers, bays, and creeks, a very long shoreline and extensive areas of shallow water.’ L. Eugene Cronin thus begins his introduction to The Chesapeake Bay in Maryland: an atlas of natural resources, a work which explains in both words and maps the extraordinary importance of this region for aquatic life.